Anyone else find Shadow Blades kinda 'meh' as a 3min CD?

I mean, unless there is bloodlust going on, I usually am not excited about Shadow Blades at all. Its duration is super short (12 secs), and I feel like I'm waiting for energy on half that duration anyway. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Vendetta is much much better, and it's only 2 min cd.

Shadow Blades is awesome, especially with 4p. The only thing that saddens me a bit is that it's handled by the game in a very clumsy way when there's a bit of FPS pressure (25 men raid, all pack, bloodlust, Megaera rampage, etc.), and it leads you very, very quickly to wasting CP or even GCD. And it is obviously way worse in Combat.

I mean, unless there is bloodlust going on, I usually am not excited about Shadow Blades at all. Its duration is super short (12 secs), and I feel like I'm waiting for energy on half that duration anyway. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Vendetta is much much better, and it's only 2 min cd.

The thing about SB is not not so much the autoattack damage, but the cp generation. If you pool energy before you use it, you can get a lot of finishers off and so a lot of burst, especially in conjunction with cds, trinkets, hero and/or pot. Also, save your second one for execute, with pot and the rep trinket up, and you will do comical damage for about 10-20 seconds.